Besides being a major environmental risk to health, air pollution could be a serious threat to the solar industry as well. Looking into the losses caused by accumulation of airborne particles on solar panels, a group of researchers has found that energy output may be reduced by o...... [More]

JinkoSolar Holding overtook Trina Solar in terms of solar PV module shipments in 2016, shipping 6.6 to 6.7 GW modules while Trina followed closely with 6.3 to 6.55 GW, according to research consulting firm GlobalData.GlobalData estimates that the global solar PV market was value...... [More]

Turning solar panel factories into neighborhood businesses, similar to microbreweries, is inventor Shawn Fraynes argument as to how to make solar panels cheaper and more accessible to the masses.Frayne and co-inventor Alex Hornstein crated the micro-solar panel factory to ease...... [More]